Pentalithic Ramblings

The Shire Harvest Festival, or Fonasanais1 as it’s called in the hobbit tongue, occurs around Yendary 21st, though depending on weather and the harvest it may sometimes be shifted by a few days in either direction. It’s celebrated simultaneously all across the Shire. The festival is essentially a great outdoor feast made from vegetables just harvested …

Occurring around the beginning of winter, on Frasmary 1st and 2nd, the Festival of Lights is a low-key event usually only carried out by the priesthood of Pharasma in Narathion, Atlartica, and Mazonia, though outsiders are welcome to watch. The festival lasts from sunset on the 1st to sunrise on the 2nd. At sunset, the priesthood …

And there upon the river bank, young Brann did spot a fleeting flank, a mighty boar that just had drank. So with a yell he drew his prog, and leapt upon the hapless hog, while all the people watched agog. ~ Excerpt from “The Journey of Brann” ~ (Composed by the bard Valentin) Every autumn, on…

Drifting along the high air currents passing over the Backbone, you might spot the city of Wulkenstadt1 (Giantish for “Cloud City”), a huge floating city built by the cloud giants. Kept aloft by a million bound air elementals, the city has become legendary as a center of trade and diplomacy between the two halves of the …

Description The Crystal Orb of Pure Thought is a large, perfectly smooth orb, 35cm in diameter, that appears to be made of bluish glass or possibly psionic crystal. Deep within the orb, wisps of whiteness swirl along, with an occasional splash of colour. The orb is light as a feather, and if dropped, falls in slow …

Coterminous with nearly all other non-transitive planes, the Astral Plane is the keystone to interplanar travel. Most teleportation type spells that cross planar boundaries rely on the Astral Plane, and will not function on planes such as the Faerie Plane that are disconnected from the Astral Plane. Many psionic powers are also dependent on the Astral …

Description It stands way out in the middle of a vast desert in Acheron, the fourth circle of Hell, towering some twenty-odd metres above the flat sands – a throne carved of dark red stone, rough-hewn yet quite elaborate, a stark contrast against the brightness of the surrounding sands. The throne stands vacant, avoided even by …

Description The Bowl of the Winds is a ceramic bowl containing a tiny scale model of the continent of Tarosir, which shows the current weather patterns across the entire continent. Even the Scandic Wastes, the poorly-charted regions north of the Dragon’s Teeth mountains, are perfectly-depicted in the model. Using the Detect Magic spell on it reveals …

The Far Realm of the Tarosir setting is vast, perhaps even larger than the Astral Plane, and it is filled with all sorts of strange, bizarre, and often twisted things. The Citadel of Eternity is sort of one such thing, but the most twisted aspect of it is how extremely normal it is. As you approach …

The general properties of the Plane of Dreams were already covered in a previous post, but there’s a lot more to this unusual plane than mentioned there. Layout and Connections The connections of the Plane of Dreams to other planes is a little fluid. It is always coexistent with the Astral Plane, though there is no …